Clément Pédron, Media365: published on Sunday January 26, 2025 at 3:48 p.m.
Two days after officially launched his 2025 season, Pierre Latour introduced himself to the Valencia classic this Sunday. Above all, he told the team that following a very bad year 2024, he could stop his career at the end of this season.
It is one of those troublemakers of cycling that we like to see running. One of those that we do not always understand the actions on a bicycle during the races but which is one of those who certainly do so with panache, with courage and without any frills. Pierre Latour began his 2025 season with the Classic of Morvelre where he took 43rd place. Note that his teammate Alexys Brunel, for a escaped moment, finished at the foot of the podium less than thirty seconds from winner Berrade. Just before participating in the Valencia classic this Sunday, the Totalnergies runner took the time to indulge in the daily the team. And the least we can say is that French has not done in the language of wood, as usual …
-When talking about this 2025 exercise, the Drômois suggested that it could be his last year with professionals by declaring that it was “likely”. “In fact, it will really depend,” he continues. If it goes well downhill, if I regain pleasure … because I don't see myself continuing just to continue: shopping where you serve nothing, it's not incredible, I'm not bicycle for That. And I won't be bored next if I stop. »»
A runner marked by the descents
At 31, Pierre Latour remains a young runner, capable of evolving several seasons still at the high level. But it must also be said that the French, who returns in his last year of contract with Totallergies, comes out of a year 2024 exhausting on many aspects. “A year of shit,” said the runner in mid-January during an internship in his team in Spain. It was to Paris-Nice, then I broke my ribs with a Touraine wheel (March 24) and, from there, it was very hassle, the ribs, an iron deficiency, an infection pulmonary, all the small diseases that drag. It was a bit endless, I didn't have much fun. »» Since then, the French champion of the time trial 2017 and 2018 is better and tackles this new season-perhaps the last-with envy. He also worked on an aspect of the race that handicaps him on a daily basis: descents. Since a fall in Abu Dhabi in 2019 (fracture of the end of the radius and the scaphoid of the left hand, fracture of the right elbow), the winner of a stage of the Vuelta in 2016 has a lot of trouble approaching this exercise. “But right now, it's okay, tempers the roller-climber always to the team. I did a little all the approaches, mental trainer, psychologist, EMDR, each time it goes even if it does not leave definitively, but it is enough that I fall back or make a fear and I have to start all over again. For the time being, Pierre Latour is avoiding thinking about all of this. He wants to see the sportsman, “win races or help (his) teammates to win. »»
